STOP MARKING!

Interest in learning is diminished

Intellectual risks are avoided

Thinking is more superficial

“Teachers who spend time crafting helpful comments are wasting their time if they also give a mark.” (Dylan Wiliam)

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“Students need some feedback about how they are doing in terms of marks, grades or levels, but I suggest this should be no more than once every two or three years in primary schools, maybe once a year in lower secondary , and perhaps once a term when before school-leaving or university-entrance exams.” (Dylan Wiliam)

Proficient

OR

Compliant?

“Experience success and failure not as a reward and punishment, but as information” (Jerome Bruner)

Alternatives

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Parents – ask about what they are doing, not how well the teacher thinks they are doing

Learning or Performance?

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